OBSESSED Anna Smirnoff wrote a chilling “Art of Stalking” guide then sent it to her long-suffering victim, a court heard

The French psychologist described herself as “a warrior” fearing nothing in the detailed document, Newcastle Crown Court was told.

She laid out her seven principles of stalking – and talked of being “ready and willing” to make a last stand, the court heard.

A further passage, read to the jury, said: “Stalkers learn to have endless patience. Stalkers are never in a hurry.”

Smirnoff went on to describe that stalkers had an endless capacity to improvise.

And another section read: “Warriors chose their battleground. A warrior never goes into battle without knowing what the surroundings are.

“A stalker never pushes himself to the front. He is always looking on from behind the scene.”

Entitled Principles of the Art of Stalking, the document was allegedly sent to the married professional in 2002 as part of a traumatic 16-year campaign of incessant calls, letters, and e-mails.

The vendetta had begun after Smirnoff, 49, from Noisy-le-Sec, Paris, met the man briefly during a work placement from Newcastle University in 1990 when he rejected her sexual advances, the court has heard.

And asked for his reaction to the “stalking” manual, he told the jury: “I found it exceptionally chilling.

“It struck me she appeared to recognise she was behaving in the manner of a stalker. She’s thought a great deal about this.

“She has insight into what she is doing and the very clear message was that it would never stop.”

Smirnoff, arrested by French police last year and returned to the North East, denies four charges of causing fear by harassment.

The court has heard how she inundated the man with messages, bombarded his work colleagues with threats and accusations of child abuse and copied those lies to the Queen, Tony Blair, MPs and newspapers.

Continuing his evidence, the man told the jury: “When this first started we tried to manage it in a rational way. Since then it has become completely irrational.

“My fear is tangible. It never goes away. It is both chronic and acute and it impacts on every part of my life.”